Gareth Harris reports, “The Polish government has paid more than 500 million Polish zloty ($118 million) for the Czartoryski collection, which includes Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Lady With an Ermine (around 1489–90) and Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638).” Not everyone is happy about the purchase, however. [The Art Newspaper]

The Talent

Meriç Öner has been promoted to be director of the SALT space in Istanbul. She had been associate director since 2011. [Artforum]

MoMA PS1 curator Jenny Schlenzka has been tapped to become artistic director of Performance Space 122 in New York. [The New York Times]

Artist Doron Rabina has been appointed chief curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. [Haaretz]